Going on vacation, as rewarding as it may be, can also be exhausting. Just ask anyone who has ever tried to make the most of their vacation days by working up to the last minute before taking off, and then immediately returning to work with not even a weekend or an extra day off to [...]
Continue reading about #131 Wanting a Vacation for the Vacation from Their Paid Vacation
Everyone loves a buy one get one free deal. Whether it’s a fast food hamburger, a cell phone, or a bag of salad, people can’t help but get excited about getting extra stuff for the same price they’d usually pay. Typically, when encountering a buy one get one free situation, the buyer would think of [...]
Continue reading about #103 Buy One Get One Free Deals, if Someone Else is Buying
For all those who didn’t melt into a puddle with joy over the Palm Pre because they were waiting for the much-rumored new iPhone, that dream was answered today with the announcement of the iPhone 3G S. The much ballyhooed smartphone war of 2009 has officially started, and the unemployed are all about trying to sway the [...]
Continue reading about #96 Poorly Justifying Why They Need a Smartphone
There comes a time in every unemployed person’s life where they lose their so-called patience and fly off the handle. Usually, the ones who suffer from these brief moments are pets who don’t understand what’s being said or outsourced call center workers who don’t understand what’s being said. On all other days, primarily the days [...]
Continue reading about #91 Yelling at Employees of Government Agencies
It’s amazing how much time can be spent daydreaming about winning the lottery. Countless people working dead end office jobs can attest to this as they shamelessly collect their non-winning lotto tickets, thinking to themselves, “Next time.” When a big jackpot rolls around, these are the types of people who won’t even blink before throwing [...]
Continue reading about #66 Dreaming About Winning the Lottery
Once the unemployed have grown accustomed to leeching off the government, what’s to stop them from going after people with money to supplement their jobless lifestyle? It’s not like gold diggers are a new concept - people have been searching for a sugar mama or sugar daddy for as long as money has been around. [...]
Continue reading about #55 Trying to Befriend More Successful Unemployed People Like Paris Hilton
It’s pretty ridiculous just how timeless Office Space is, given that it’s been ten years since it was released and everything is pretty much the same in the working world, especially with Jennifer Aniston being just as annoying. Cringe worthy bosses, obnoxious coworkers, and downsizing consultants that make you wanna die. Those are the themes [...]
Continue reading about #53 Watching Office Space and Reminiscing About the Good Ol’ Days
For anyone receiving unemployment checks the idea of getting free money is so novel they end up exploring other ways of scamming the government for goods. Now that food stamps (aka Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) are distributed via special debit cards rather than actual stamps, the unemployed for sure have looked into whether they’re eligible to participate. [...]
Though it might be a rare event, eventually there comes a time when unemployed people finally feel the need to get out of their house and do something besides popping in to the grocery store in lazy pants. Like anything, unemployment has its ups and downs, and there’s always a need to be prepared for [...]
Continue reading about #34 Scouring the Internet for Free Things to Do
Plenty of unemployed people will bemoan their situations and make every effort to remind their friends and family that they’re struggling to make ends meet without a job “in this economy”. Then there are the cool unemployed people who will make every effort to make light of their situation so as not to burden said [...]
Continue reading about #15 Taking Friends Out “On the Government”
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